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Calls for more transparency as Scotland's Drug Deaths Taskforce is dismantled after zero impact on drug deaths
04.07.2022 - 19:17 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Critics have slammed the decision to scrap the Scottish Drug Deaths Taskforce and replace it with another body that is answerable only to the Scottish Government.
The Taskforce was created in 2019 after campaigning by the Daily Record for a proper emergency response to our grotesquely spiralling drug deaths. But it has been regarded as a flop in that regard, as deaths have gone up and now only show signs of hitting a minor dip or plateau.
It will deliver its final recommendations at the end of this month after Scottish drugs policy minister Angela Constance's demands for a hurry-up led to the resignations of the previous chair and vice chair. The Scottish Government’s newly formed National Drugs Mission Oversight Group has already met after being quietly assembled in recent months.
Paul Sweeney MSP, who has written his own private bill to enable Overdose Prevention Centres in Scotland, said the new body is just as “opaque” as the one it replaces.
He said: “The Taskforce was set up to drive the number of drug deaths in Scotland down, something it has failed to do year upon year.
"We were told by the Scottish Government that we should only judge the Taskforce after it had existed for three years. We are now approaching that date and it seems the government, like me, has concluded that the Taskforce has been ineffective and must go.
However, scrapping the Taskforce and replacing it with an opaque body that will only be answerable to the government is not only naive but is further proof that the government are terrified of independent scrutiny and will do anything they can to mask their myriad of failings on drug deaths.”
Sweeney’s Drug Death Prevention Scotland Bill advocates replacing the Taskforce with a body entirely
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